half-cocked

But it isn't the time to go off half-cocked and get yourself killed!

Never go into anything half-cocked, she could hear her mentor say.

Otherwise, we might go off half-cocked and cause more harm than good.

I sure as hell don't want to run into a dead end with some half-cocked killer behind me.

I gave him a half-cocked grin and shook my head.

There is no room in the Guard for half-cocked impulses.

"Don't go off half-cocked until you know what you're getting into.

The moon was bright enough for me to see his half-cocked eyebrow.

He'd rather not do an event than do one that was half-cocked.

And don't go off with some half-cocked idea about saying yes now and no tomorrow.

Thus far, you have nothing more than half-cocked assumptions and insinuations.

"You have to promise me you won't go off and do something half-cocked."

"Instead you went off to the asteroids like some half-cocked space rigger!"

In a race of this magnitude and importance, you don't go into it half-cocked."

Salvage is a screwy business, one that you can't go out and do half-cocked.

Amateurs were more likely to go off half-cocked and crazy, especially if they got spooked.

I've told you they won't go off half-cocked as long as Westfall is on the job.

"I will not put any more of my men at risk because my son ran off on some half-cocked adventure.

You rush off half-cocked and someday you're going to get hurt or hurt somebody else.

She glanced down and saw that her arm was half-cocked, her fist already drawn back.

He's too proud of his competence to let himself go off half-cocked or to overreact to a situation."

President Clinton is not going to run off half-cocked and force a showdown with Pyongyang.

Still, my countE music idea might have hit them as half-cocked and completely crazy What better time to test their faith in me?

But don't you go flyin off all half-cocked.